Steve, his life partner, and his spoiled-rotten Rhodesian Ridgeback Zuri are all native Texans living in San Antonio. He spent his first career in real estate. He began to write as an antidote to the blues of 2009's Great Recession. Steve has written passionately and prolifically about coming of age during the AIDS crisis, growing up openly queer in a strict Southern Baptist society, and how he found himself isolated in an underground fueled by sex, disco, and drugs. An organizer for the LGBTQ community, Steve carries a message of hope, resilience, and love with an old school Texas twang.